Quotes About Meaning

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.